• Hubs

A metadata description standard for public software

• The People
• The Tech
• Civic data

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

We help Open Source projects for cities become successful, build sustainable communities around them and create a thriving public Open Source ecosystem.

• cities

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Build something

• The Tech
• Media
• Solutions journalism

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Go Code Colorado is a statewide apps challenge to bring developers and entrepreneurs together to build better business apps with public data.

• The People
• Build something
• Building inside government

Progressive Coders Network is a 501(c)(4) non-partisan progressive community of tech and non-tech activists building open-source tools to empower the grassroots and reduce the influence of big money in politics.

• The People
• Organize campaigns
• Help out

Municode provides website design & development, electronic payment processing, codification, and publishing services to local governments.

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

Amnesty Decoders is an innovative platform for volunteers around the world to use their computers or phones to help our researchers sift through pictures, information and documents.

• human rights

• Media and social media analysis
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Pro bono and volunteer

Innovative open source projects, made by incredibly motivated students, coaches & organisations.

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

Le Monde's database of fake news websites

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

an experimental project to enable practical alternatives to how we manage our personal data and interact on the internet

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Data rights

Code to send out a daily tip sheet for fact checkers

• The Tech
• Media
• Newsletters

this Slack has over 200 members who identify as “lonely coders,” technologists who are alone or one of just a few folks in their newsroom who work with tech and data.

• The Tech
• Media
• Engagement tech

to co-create a better Twin Cities

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

We are building the largest social accountability movement, empowering marginalized communities in Africa.

• The People
• The Tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

By Code Hope Labs. The policy is intended to be used within cause-based organizations which wish to encourage the experimental use of ChatGPT or other LLMs within their organizations.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Organizational policies on AI

The repository contains maps of Mexican districts used to elect representatives to various offices and code for data systematization and analysis. The primary source are shapefiles publicly distributed by INE (formerly IFE, Mexico's national election board, page here). Data in this repo is prepared for mapping and statistical analysis.

• 2024 elections

• Civic data
• Voting and elections

Ushahidi-powered project tracking voting irregularities in the 2009 Indian election

• Voting and elections
• Civic maps
• Election oversight

Online course offered through Georgetown University’s Initiative on Technology and Society, the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation and the McCourt School of Public Policy: a continuing education course to help participants rapidly grasp digital fundamentals in a way that is practical and relevant to their work.

• Learn about civic tech
• Govtech
• Online courses

CivicSearch is a search and discovery tool for everything that is said in local government meetings, texts, and laws. It covers 547 cities and towns in the US and Canada.

• local

• Civic data
• Government transparency
• Speech recognition

Over 860 "Coders, product managers and anyone who wants to help the party win with better technology."

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech
• Meet the others

Tech company signatories of the voluntary EU Code of Practice on Disinformation report relevant data on disinformation on their platforms

• Civic data
• Fight disinformation
• Consumer watchdogging

This site contains a list created by the Codeando México community and curated by different volunteers with knowledge of civic technology projects in Mexico.

• Civic tech catalogs

Mapeo de rutas para futuras ciudades sostenibles

• mobility

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Civic hackathons

Radicle is a sovereign peer-to-peer network for code collaboration, built on top of Git.

• Build something
• General purpose open source tools
• Decentralization

Postcode lookup search engine to "Have your say about local issues. Councils carry out consultations on the way they plan, manage and deliver services."

• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Housing Courts Must Change! (HCMC) is a statewide campaign launched by the Right to Counsel NYC Coalition in 2020 to transform the courts across New York State (NYS) from an “eviction machine” to a place that holds landlords accountable, upholds tenants’ rights, and enables tenants to remain in their homes.

• housing

• Justice tech
• Civic maps

FediPlan is an open source application (source code) built for scheduling your messages with Mastodon or Pleroma (2.7+).

• Social media
• Mastodon

Take the hassle out of web scraping

• Civic data
• Open civic data
• Research tools

The “AI Cyber Challenge” (AIxCC) will challenge competitors across the United States, to identify and fix software vulnerabilities using AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Challenges
• Open source supply chain

The Innovation and Technology Group of the Vilnius City Municipality is developing digital innovations aimed at the smart development of the Lithuanian capital.

• cities

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Data governance

The portal is designed not only for IT specialists who want to create projects using open-source code but also for residents who want to make important personal life decisions based on sound statistical data.

• Civic data
• Government transparency
• Open government data

It's an open source carbon footprint web application that enables users to approximate their annual carbon footprint.

• Climate action

• Carbon calculators

Code for Korea's project digitizing government gazettes '공보’란 국가기관과 지방자치단체가 대국민에 정부의 소식을 알려주는 소식지를 말합니다.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Report cards and audits

Code for Canada's job board

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

Open source no-code database and Airtable alternative

• General purpose open source tools

by Code for America Founder Jennifer Pahlka

• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Govtech
• Books

Code assistant

• Generative AI
• Artificial Intelligence

Generate text, code assistant

• Generative AI
• Artificial Intelligence

ACT is a newly formed organization that will connect volunteer civic technology efforts, in both technology and advocacy, in their local communities.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Generate text, Code assistant

• Generative AI
• Artificial Intelligence

Ljubljana, Slovenia based civic tech NGO, focusing efforts on (digital) political participation, open data, transparency, and public institutional oversight.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Participatory democracy

A report by Written by Nneka Sobers and Dr. Anthony Townsend.

• reports
• case studies

• Govtech
• Reports

Source Jobs publishes job listings for people who design interactive features, write code, and work with data in newsrooms.

• Media
• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

Report and share Violence Incidence in Nigeria directly on this platform.

• Preventing election violence

• Voting and elections
• Crowdsourcing
• Election observation

The Public Technology Leadership Collaborative (PTLC) is a new peer learning collective of scholars, researchers, and government leaders committed to addressing the social and cultural implications of data and technology.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Armed with user research and no-code tools, we strive to make the world a better place.

• Webflow

• Build something
• Social impact design firms
• Building in the private sector

Strengthening Digital Infrastructure and Open Source Ecosystems in the Public Interest

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Build something